I made this layout to record spring at our house, and share spring at home with Mike. It’s 8.5 x 11 for ease of printing and mailing. More of what I do now will likely be that size for that reason. It’s also the reason that I’m working more in digital when I’m not working on things like Big Picture classes and my Project Life.

The bottom of the blue block of patterned paper was scalloped in the template. I removed it by spinning the block and hiding the scalloped edge under the photo block. (The scallop didn’t work well with the patterned paper I wanted to use, which is why I removed it.)

The doilies form a visual triangle, as well as the three white text elements.

The border of the journaling box was created from patterned paper to give it some texture.

The photos were positioned so their visual lines pulled the eye through the grid.